What Song?

Trick
Trick brain teasers appear difficult at first, but they have a trick that makes them really easy.

A man is sitting in a pub feeling rather poor. He sees the man next to him pull a wad of £50 notes out of his wallet.
He turns to the rich man and says to him,
"I have an amazing talent; I know almost every song that has ever existed."
The rich man laughs.
The poor man says, "I am willing to bet you all the money you have in your wallet that I can sing a genuine song with a lady's name of your choice in it."
The rich man laughs again and says, "OK, how about my daughter's name, Joanna Armstrong-Miller?"
The rich man goes home poor. The poor man goes home rich.

In my opinion, the mark of a good trick teaser is when you want to smack yourself for not knowing the answer when you see it and it seems so OBVIOUS, but you're totally stumped when you're thinking about it before hand...this fits that criteria. Good one

im not sure if you've seen the comments on my smashing cars teaser where hellos put ''the best teaser on this site'' but soon when he comes to this riddle he will be saying this is the best riddle on the site good1

lol, lol, lol! That got me a little bit, I couldn't find a song that matched that name! lol!

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Apr 30, 2003

This is one of those "If I was in a different state of mine I would have been TOTALLY stumped," however, I was only partially stumped. The answer I came up with was "The Name Game" (y'know banana nana fo fanna fee fi fo fanna ANNA...or whatever), but I like yours better.

Very good. Don't know why, but I got it right away. Still, very good nonetheless.

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Jul 05, 2003

same here.. the answer just popped into my head... but the answer could also be that "anna - anna - bobanna - banana fanna -fo fanna.." u know what i mean.. u can use anyname in that song too.... G*job though.. i liked it... *smile*

This reminded me of the old Taxi episode when Loui (the evil dispatcher) was remembering when he was a driver and he picked up this con-artist kid who kept using brain teasers to get money from him. Hilarious episode.

it was a good one but technically its wrong. if u read the actual wording the poor man went home poor and he rich man went home rich. the bet was for the money in his wallet and yet he pulled it out and was holding the wad in his hand. they actully bet for no money.

"it was a good one but technically its wrong. if u read the actual wording the poor man went home poor and he rich man went home rich. the bet was for the money in his wallet and yet he pulled it out and was holding the wad in his hand. they actully bet for no money."
lol, my first thought, before I finished the puzzle, was that the question was "poor man on the bet, but no money, how?"
great one! first one added to my favorites.

this is the 1st "trick" teasr that i missed it was incredibly clever now if you will excuse me while i go and kick myself into insensibilty for missing that one *kicks self*

and in a momentary(or not so) bout of childishness: i can do this too: Â£ and to prove that i didnt copy and paste here are some more. DÃ¸GÃŸÃ¸Â¥ =H4xÃ¸R LL4M4 ok not all of those are weird symbols but w/e

too easy and how do we know that he didn't have just 50 whatevers cus the rich man took it outta his wallet so if he didn't have anything else in it then they woulda gone home with the same amount of money

This was cute
But i agree with the folks that point out that the money had been pulled out of the wallet.
If it said 'all the money in your hand...' then it would work better.
Plus the word 'genuine' is kinda' not the right word, because he could have sang any song and replaced the name or other lyrics with the girls name, or made up a song with her name in it. As long as there is any kind of melodic vocal, it is a genuine song. 'Popular' would have been a better word than 'genuine'.
And i can't imagine ANYONE would have taken a bet like this for so much money, maybe a couple of bucks, but not all the money they had, UNLESS...the rich man was REALLY drunk....then i guess none of these points would matter.
But if the poor guy is going to take advantage of a fellow in this drunken state, he could have just robbed him in the parking lot without having to sing a note.
...but i still found it entertaining.
Joanna Armstrong-Miller had a little lamb whose fleece was white as snow....

I agree w/ you Super....If the rich man pulled out 50 from his wallet, then what was left for the poor man to win?, (who mind you was "feeling" poor and not officially poor according the riddle.) Tim, you sure do put a lot of thought into these....too cute.

and by the way...toocute4u....ur 10 month old sister could NOT have done better than that because chances are....SHE CANT TALK YET! and arent these comment forums for POSITIVE FEEDBACK or KIND CRITICISM??? so if u dont have something nice or positive to say...please just keep it to ur self...n if u have time to drop nasty notes lyk that....well....then u have too much time...so go do something useful, please!

looplou, your teaser ROCKS! it totally stumped me and i so wanted to hit myself for not knowing the answer! great job!
P.S. anyone who says otherwise is just mad because they didnt get the answer either! keep 'em comin!!!

Excellent. When I was at U.T. Austin, there was a Prof. Hill in the linguistics dept. whose claim to fame among grad students was that his 2 maiden aunts wrote "Happy Birthday" and he inherited the copyright! Made him rich, but he chose an academic career nonetheless.

Ooohhh that was cool I did not see that coming . I mean I'm thinking some really old classic song and I was way off. Okay to be honest really didn't know what song. But, that, that, was cool. Awesome teaser Keep 'em comin'

WAY TO GO LOOP.... BUT I WAS THINKING OF THE JOHN DENVER SONG ...."ANNIES SONG" IF YOU JUMBLE THE WORDS OF JOANNA ARMSTRONG MILLER YOU CAN GET FEMALE NAME OF "ANNIE".... OH WELLL... STILL LOVED THIS TEASER....
LATER GATORS,
KITTY

With so many comments, may as well add one more. Don't know how many know the history of "Happy Birthday," but it was written by two maiden aunts of the last name Hill, who copyrighted it. When I was at the Univ. of Texas at Austin (years ago), there was a Prof. Hill in the Linguistics Dept. who was their nephew and heir, and he received worldwide royalties on "H.B." Rumor was this made him a rich man.